Word: walking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elevators are confined to hotels, shops, and offices, in nearly all Europeans cities. The less pretentious hotels provide elevator service to take guest upstairs, but expect them to walk down. All but the most luxurious apartment houses have no elevators whatever. In Scandinavia there have installed a few unattened "never stop elevators," the cars of which pass slowly and continuously from floor to floor while agile passengers leap...
...right . . . keep that line and walk up. . . . Bring up that 12 horse. . . . Back, four. . . . Step back, I tell you. . . . All right, Jimmy, bring him up. . . . The Salmon horse . . . Eddy, get that 12 horse by the bridle and pull him up. . . .All right, hold it . . . hold it ... spread out there...
Accordingly to this final plan, the new building will be erected across the walk from the Soldiers Field locker room, and the Superintendent's office. This will situate the cage at the easterly end of the tennis courts, and a portion of the building....which is to be 160 feet square, will probably lie upon the end court. Ample room will be left between locker building and cage to accomodate the crowds which make use of the walk during the football season. Ground for the new building will be broken as soon as possible after the present athletic season...
Certain cynics have recently wondered just what it profits a man to lose his land for points unknown. There is, as they have so well said, the opportunity for a long walk home. But cynics are usually patrons of hearth fires where criticism, like Aristotelianism, is a thing easily possessed. Romanticism when it means the conquest of more matter by the mind and courage of man is so satisfying, so adequate that one wonders after all if at times romanticism and classicism are not two faces of a Janus who is the world...
Press. The editor of the London Daily Mail, alarmed by all these developments, prepared a flaming anti-labor editorial, only to have his printers, machine managers, stereotypers and pressmen walk out on strike rather than send the editorial on its way. Thus the Daily Mail, "largest newspaper in the British Empire," failed to appear. The Times declared: "Unless counsels of reason prevail we are within a few hours of the most grave domestic menace which has hung over this nation since the fall of the Stuarts...